SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Department of Emergency Medicine

Affiliate Hospitals

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN (UHB) is the principal teaching hospital of SUNY Downstate
School of Medicine and the only major academic medical center in Brooklyn. It is located
across the street from Kings County Hospital and shares many of the same faculty practices
and training programs. The ED was greatly expanded and renovated in 2002 and currently
contains 21 acute care beds, a two-bed critical care resuscitation room, a 6-bed pediatric
emergency room and an urgent care area. The UHB ED currently sees approximately 70,000
patient visits per year.

KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL CENTER is one of the most storied public hospitals in the country.
Its halls hold the history of generations of immigrants to this country. The hospital
serves as the main site for our residency program and is one of only three adult trauma
centers in the borough of Brooklyn and the only level one pediatric trauma center
in Brooklyn. "The County" cares for a vast number of Brooklyn's 3.5 million inhabitants
as the largest municipal hospital in New York City, and one of the largest general
acute care hospitals in the nation. The campus is situated on 43 acres and contains
23 buildings. Along with its designation as a Level I Trauma Center, it has 9 Intensive
Care Units including a Pediatric ICU and a large Renal Dialysis Center. Kings County
is a Stroke Center and a Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) Center of Excellence.

The Emergency Department census is over 125,000 visits per year, making it one of
the busiest ED's in the country. The amount and variety of pathology is simply staggering
and unparalleled. According to the CDC, Kings County has led the nation in the number
of penetrating trauma cases in the last decade - a dubious honor, though an asset
when viewed from the perspective of a resident training program.The Adult ED has state-of-the-art patient care areas, thirteen fully-monitored critical
care beds, twenty-five acute care beds, and a general med-surg ED area, as well as
a fast-track area. There are five fully equipped resuscitation rooms with room for
2 critical patients in each room. In addition, there is a room dedicated to the care
of asthma patients, dialysis bays, isolation rooms, and a complete radiology suite,
including multi-detector spiral CT, MRI, ultrasound, and angiography.

The large Pediatric Emergency Department is integrated into the ED overall space but
has a separate treatment area and waiting room. This large patient care space includes
two trauma resuscitation areas, an asthma room, a surgical treatment room, and ten
examination rooms.

LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER

The Emergency Department (ED) at Lutheran Medical Center provides comprehensiveworld-class carefor emergencies to patients of all ages offering
special expertise in trauma, stroke,cardiac,pediatrics to Brooklyn's 2.6 million residents. Staffed with full time Emergency trained doctors
and nurses, we have redefined the emergency response process and dramatically reduced
overall wait times and most importantly, set a new standard for emergency care.

Along with the Trauma Center, the ED includes a cardiac resuscitation area, a crisis
unit for psychiatric and substance-abuse patients and a medical specialties suite. The
ED is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art technology and facilities, including
3 ED x-ray units, a brand new GE 128 slice CT scanner and a new, larger Ambulance
Triage Center that is more than double the size of the prior one.

With Lutheran Medical Center's full-scale, multidisciplinary systems of care, expanded
and renovated facilities and a fully implemented Electronic Medical Record System,
we stand ready for the growing numbers who make Lutheran their hospital of choice

Putting People First

At Lutheran, People are not just patients. As our mission states, “Lutheran is committed to meeting ourneighbors’ changing physical, emotional,
spiritual, intellectual and social needs.” For more effective communications, Lutheran's
Emergency Department provides a Patient Navigator Program, Daily Huddles, a senior
administrator Diplomat Program, Emergency Department Greeters and a member of the Department of Pastoral Care.

The Quickest Care

Lutheran Medical Center's Emergency Department is designed specifically to reduce
wait times, increase patient flow and quality and improve patient satisfaction. For
patients with minor illness and injuries, emergency walk-in patients are served in
our state-of-the-art, 5 rooms Fast Track Center, which connects the patient to their provider (a physician assistant, an ED doctor
or both) in 30 minutes or less on average. Thousands of patients have been triaged,
treated and released in record times.